Tory MEP Dan Hannan also claimed that he had “tended to get things wrong” on the economy too.

Carney’s five-year term is due to end in 2018, but has always had an option to extend it to 2021.

The FT reported on Monday that the Governor was now “leaning” towards extending his stay in post, partly to stand up for the independence of the role in the face of Brexiteer criticism.

Asked if the PM viewed Carney as “the right man for the job”, her spokeswoman replied: “Absolutely.”

“The Prime Minister has always had a good working relationship with the Governor and intends to continue that.

“She recognises the work that he has been doing for the country and supports that.”

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Nigel Farage and Daniel Hannan

Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Hannan said: “It’s up to him [Carney] – if he does stay, it’s got to be on the basis he’s not the rockstar banker who presumes to tell Scotland whether to stay in Britain, which way to vote, but rather sticks narrowly to his brief.”

“I’m fairly sure Mervyn King [Carney’s predecessor] voted to leave the EU but he wouldn’t say so, even having left the office, because he didn’t want retrospectively to politicise it and that’s the difference,” he said.

“As a matter of observable fact, he has tended to get things wrong, he’s got interest rates repeatedly wrong, he said when he first took over he put them up when unemployment fell below 7% in 2013… he said he’d raise them at the beginning of this year – that was ignored.

“He said that during the [Brexit] campaign, if we voted Leave unemployment would rise and as a matter of observable fact unemployment has fallen since the vote and the economy expanded by 0.5% in the third quarter since the vote.”